# Quote — Gertrude Stein, Wars I Have Seen

> The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe.

- Author: [Gertrude Stein](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gertrude-stein.md)
- Book: [Wars I Have Seen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gertrude-stein/wars-i-have-seen.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/gertrude-stein/wars-i-have-seen/the-thing-that

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> Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.

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> A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gertrude-stein/wars-i-have-seen/a-vegetable-garden.md)

> War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

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